[kj] Austin

[The Exorcist]

For once I agree entirely with Sir Greg Slawson.  (Has hell frozen over?)
Spot on Greg! Spot on!

Hell, we live in a time now where actual singing is eschewed over lip syncing.

At 02:47 AM 2/20/2010, GREG SLAWSON wrote:

>I think part of it, Oliver, is we're living in a time when there is 

>almost NO spontenaety. Most music is a rehash of a rehash of a rehash,

>and the few old-timers that are left seem just that, old (with a few 

>exceptions who can still strike a chord w/audiences, like Stiff 

>Little Fingers, Gang of Four, and maybe the Buzzcocks on a good 

>night). Music in the period from 1976-1985 had so much that was new, 

>weird, and even dangerous/disturbing. Just look at old footage of 

>concerts or tv appearances by early Devo, Clash, Black Flag, 

>Speicals, and even relatively mainstream bands like Talking Heads, 

>and you get a sense that they were

>almost from another world. Bands now try to all be 

>louder/harder/crazier than the next, but the tension, originality, 

>passion etc. is clearly missing. For me, few things

>can compare to seeing the Joke in a tiny discoteque w/the lights on 

>playing to a few dozen people in Houston TexASS in 1981, or Henry 

>Rollins crawling through broken

>glass on the floor wearing only shorts, or Bad Manners dumping 

>buckets of water on an audience of 30--at a large rock club, since 

>the small club they were booked at didn't have a stage large enough 

>to hold the band members-- in Cleveland (both early 80s), or the 

>guitarist from Jason & the Scorchers breaking up fights in the 

>audience w/one had while still playing the guitar w/the other, and 

>countless other shows. Today, music (from rock to country to "r & 

>b") is so passionless, watered down, and ultra-contrived. Even world 

>music from Africa, Middle East, India, etc. is done on synthesizer 

>now instead of traditional instruments. And kids are used to 

>thinking they can experience reality sitting in a chair with their 

>Iphones or whaterver--hell, they don't even buy cd's w/lyrics, cover 

>art, etc. but just download individual songs, thinking that they're 

>really experiencing music! I think those of us who were around when 

>it was real have much higher expectations. If only kids today knew 

>that coming home from a show soaked in the sweat of the 80 or so 

>people in the audience was really music, not seeing Kings of Leon, 

>or "cover" bands like Interpole/Bravery etc. an air-conditioned ampitheater!

>

> > Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:47:45 -0600

> > From: bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net

> > To: gathering at misera.net

> > Subject: Re: [kj] Austin

> >

> > Yeah, it's weird - or not?

> >

> > I often go out expecting something amazing to happen, yet the opposite

> > does. You go home asleep, alone, and have this weird feeling of

> > existential confusion/loneliness.

> >

> > Seeing the The Dicks (live!) and then dancing to Killing Joke next door

> > would probably make any sane person happy. I went away from it all

> > feeling very hollow. Maybe it's me. The Dicks can do no wrong, vis a vis

> > "Rich Daddy": <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDwSqERSSh0>

> >

> > I was so stoked, excited when they played it, being raised by a single

> > mom myself (with no rich daddy, etc.) - it's like one of the great

> > all-time punk classics to me. Like Seeing The Ramones do "Sheena is..."

> > Yet getting shoved around and then ultimately leaving it all feeling

> > like it's actually not worth a hill of beans? Blegh. At least I got to

> > dance to Killing Joke after that, even if it was by myself! :)

> >

> > -0liver

> >

> >

> >

> > Brendan wrote:

> > > Being a smarty...the lyrics are all about Morrissey (or some 3rd person)

> > > being cajoled to go out when they don't feel like it, having a miserable

> > > time and coming home and feeling worse...or something ;)

> > >

> > > Which is my experience about 80% of the time going to clubs 

> (hence I prefer

> > > gigs)

> > >

> > >

> > >

> >

> > _______________________________________________

> > Gathering mailing list

> > Gathering at misera.net

> > http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/gathering

>

>

>----------

>Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. 

><http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/>Sign up now.

>_______________________________________________

>Gathering mailing list

>Gathering at misera.net

>http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/gathering

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://four.pairlist.net/pipermail/gathering/attachments/20100220/d013c6b8/attachment.htm>